It baffles me that anyone could possibly love a God that would send friends, relatives, spouses, and billions of mostly good people to eternal torture. Even if I were to make it to Heaven, how the fuck would I be able to enjoy my time there with a front-row view to seeing all my loved ones burning?

>>It baffles me that anyone could possibly love a God that would send friends, relatives, spouses, and billions of mostly good people to eternal torture. Even if I were to make it to Heaven, how the fuck would I be able to enjoy my time there with a front-row view to seeing all my loved ones burning?<<

Note that my response concerns a highly recommended work of fiction. It concerns only the setting of the story and not its plot, nevertheless the especially spoiler phobic may wish to avoid the rest of my comment and read the story instead.

Well, in the excellent short story \"Hell is the Absence of God\" by Ted Chiang, those who experience the light of heaven are literally remade so they are incapable of anything but complete love and devotion to God. So if that were the answer is God will not let you care about those you used to love.

On the other hand, in the world of that story hell is not anything to fear in itself. If you value your friends and family, let alone your mind, it seems by far the better choice.

The pathetic thing is Warrior Angel and indeed most Fundies don't realize the view of hell they espouse and defend so vociferously is not based on anything remotely biblical. It's the vision of Dante, who peopled his totally imaginary Inferno with 14th century Italians with whom he was pissed off.

The pathetic thing is Warrior Angel and indeed most Fundies don't realize the view of hell they espouse and defend so vociferously is not based on anything remotely biblical. It's the vision of Dante, who peopled his totally imaginary Inferno with 14th century Italians with whom he was pissed off.

Here it is, March 2008, and I find this cute little hide away. If you were truly as forthright and honest and uprighteous, you would have certainly not had to take your comments somewhere else to spew your rattlings.

It's amusing, somewhat flattering, but defintely not on the up and up. SO is this the hell hole athiests come to to spew the same stuff that makes up hell?

Hatred, and obscenities?
Yes, I am praying for you all. And I am a woman, btw.

May God grant you the grace to see yourself as He sees you. Bless you all.

No, you aren't a woman - you're a self-deluded, pig-ignorant, irritating little twat. God does not exist. Neither does hell. Or heaven, come to that. Prayer is not answered - there's no-one anywhere to answer it. And you are so terrified of not being 'special' that you brainwash yourself into believing in your pathetic, ludicrous fantasy.

I would pity you, but I'm too busy trying to tidy up the sinful waste you're making of my planet.

Your gender is irrelevent, you appear to believe in an all-loving, completely merciful deity who will allow us to be tortured for eternity for merely failing to share in this belief, AND, you appear unable to notice the inherent contradiction in this belief.
Be you woman, man, hemaphrodite, neuter or avatar it is this stance that makes you worthy of pity from some, and contempt from others.